8 sentences with 'staged'
Example sentences and phrases with the word staged and other words derived from it.
• « Crassus had already died in his ill-conceived campaign against the Parthians; his head was used as a prop in a Greek play staged by the Parthian king. »
• « Amidst the failure of Spanish military expeditions to stop the revolutions, in 1820 an alliance of liberal politicians and military officers staged a coup against Ferdinand and began to remake Spain as a liberal state. »
• « When the new tsar, Nikolai I, was crowned in December 1825, the officers staged a rebellion in the square in front of the royal palace in St. Petersburg, hoping that the army as a whole would side with them and force the tsar to accept the reforms. Instead, after a tense day of waiting, troops loyal to the tsar opened fire and crushed the uprising. »
• « In 1852 Louis Napoleon staged a coup d'état and declared himself Emperor of France, as his uncle had done decades earlier. »
• « Fascists from all over Italy came together in the famous "March on Rome", a highly staged piece of political theatre to demonstrate Fascist unity and strength. Mussolini then set out to destroy Italian democracy from within. »
• « Especially during the modernist period, in the decades before and after the turn of the twentieth century, artists and writers had often staged their works in opposition to the culture and beliefs of their societies, but artists of the postmodern era could play with the mainstream without rejecting or breaking with it. »
• « We had staged a play on Broadway in free verse..., nothing like Shakespeare. The critics tore us to shreds. »
• « Dissatisfied with Spain's subjugation to France, in 1808 a popular uprising was staged against the government. As a result, Charles IV abdicated and his son, Ferdinand VII, was proclaimed king. Once this was known, America swore allegiance to the new monarch. »